Oberlin College - Hi-O-Hi Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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Alice H. Luce XTO the life of every institution, there come, often at times ot peculiar need. a few strong personalities, fit, above all, to cope with the existing difficulties and to infuse into everything a fresher vigor. Such an in- lluence, dominating, refreshing, and broadening, cannot fail to have a deep impress upon the lives so fortunate as to receive it and to perpetuate its power both in results that are obvious and in those that lie deep in grate- ful memories. ln the four years that Alice Hanson Luce has been a part of Oberlin life, the place she has filled has been an important one, and in a sense unique. For the broader outlook brought from the outside stimulates and renews. Not by the women of the institution alone who have felt more directly her influence. but by all, the peculiar gift she was so eminently fitted and willing to give, is appreciated. Miss Luce by her position as Dean of the lYomen's Department, her endowments and personality has given much tv our life, much that must remain because of the progress it stands for. The masterly ability shown in her administration is of an unusual order and the work accomplished in representing Qberlin to the outside norld is important and lasting. ln her class room especially, has Miss Luce's charm of personality and splendid force of intellect been felt. lt is given to some to perform that service of all the most enviable-that of opening to another's vision a new and larger XK'lfll'ltl42lllll some are so fortunate as to receive it. Those who through such a teacher have learned to know and love the English classics cannot but feel a sense of personal obligation for service so graciously rendered. To the school in Germany of which Miss Luce is to be the Principal and which has lain near her heart so long, she will bring all the force and sweep of intellect that Oberlin has been so fortunate in knowing. The lYillard School for ,Xmerican Girls. situated in llerlin, will give training in the modern languages, in art. music, literature and history, aside from the advantages it offers as a cultivated German home. For this posi- tion Miss Luce is certainly eminently fitted, as she will bring to it the best both of American colleges for women and German universities, having taken her A. ll. degree from XVellesley. her llh. D. degree from Heidelberg Uni- versity, and having had connections as a teacher with XVellesley and Smith Colleges. ln losing Miss Luce, necessarily there must be much regret: but ignor- ing our own personal feeling, there remains the sincere wish for the fullest attainment of her ideals and their realization in a foreign land even as here. 12

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General Administration Officers JAMES R. SEVERANCE GEORGE M. JONES 'lwulfxrl wuz I-3I1t'Rl'.l'.XKX AZARIAH S. ROOT LIHRARIAS

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DEAN LUCE